The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-10-01
News Of the Week.

V The temperature at Abercrombie, Mimi. on
Friday morning of last week, was only two
above zero.
: There was frost as far south as Lynchburg,
|. Va, last Saturday morning, and in Maine
! snow fell near Pennington.
To her litter of three kittens Kansas cat
added two young rabbits. and later three
n young raccoons, all of which she is nursing de-
votedly.
Mrs. Win Wright, of New Castle, Ind,
a recently gave birth to four children, making
; in all family of IA children, including FIVE
pairs of twins.
A Chinese transport has been wrecked on
one of the Pescadores Islands. Three hun
bred soldiers and the captain and crew, with
the exception of one man, were drowned.
A dispatch from Chicago on Saturday says:
4 'sThis was the red letter day in the history of
the divorce courts of Chicago. Over 100
default cases alone-said to be the largest
number on record for one day--were disposed
o Off
Miss Phoebe Couzns, it is announced from
st. Louis, has been appointed U. S. Marshal
. for that District. She is daughter of the
deceased Marshal, and is said to have direct
ed the executive affairs of the Office for some
time past.
At Dayton, Ohio, on Saturday evening,
George Zeigler went to a corner grocery,
where Daniel Alexander agreed to pay for all
the liquor Zeigler would drink. Zeigler
drank y glasses of 5-cent whiskey, walked 200
yards home, sat down and soon died.
The total number of immigrants who ar
rived in the United States from the principal
foreign countries-Canada and Mexico ex-
cepted-during the eight months which ended
on August 31st was 1862, 839, against 254, 679
during the corresponding period of last year.
A girl living at Hammonville, Pa, eloped
with colored music teacher on Sunday night,
leaving behind note explaining that she could
no longer endure the attentions of the man !
her father insisted on her marrying. The |
music teacher is described as nearly white,
handsome and gentlemanly.
Thomas McKenna. 81 years old, murdered |
his wife at their home in McKeesport, Pa,
last week. After his arrest he said he had |
been contemplating the deed for years, but |
had refrained until his children had reached |
an age when they could care for themselves.
He claimed that she was unfaithful to him.
1t is reported in San Francisco that John
D. Spreckels, President of the Oceanic
Steamship Company, has contracted with the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fee Railroad
for through express train TO run from San
Diego to New York in four days. The train
will carry passengers and mails and make but
few stops.
President Cleveland has engaged a special
train, consisting of an engine, baggage and
supply car and two palace cars for his journey
to the Western and Southern States. The
cost, it is thought, will exceed $4,000. This
train will convey him for about 4,500 miles.
The journey will occupy % days. The Pres
ident and party started yesterday.
Eleven criminals were publicly whipped
in the Jail yard at New Castle, Delaware, on
Saturday, upon their conviction of theft. {
Three coored men received ten lashes each,
three whites ten lashes each, and two other
whites each FIVE lashes. Two other culprits,
in addition to receiving twenty lashes each,
were placed in the pillory for an hour.
James A. Stewart, of Wichita, Kansas, has
been sentenced to II years and months in :
the county Jail, and fined $50, 800, with costs I.
of prosecution, for the violation of the prohi-
bition law. He was clerk in the West End :
drug store, and pleaded guilty to an indict- !
ment containing 1850 counts, at the same /
time as did Hermann, the proprietor of the
place. The latter cannot be found. !
The steamship Alesia, from Marseilles and v
Naples, which arrived at New York on Thurs e
day night of last week, with nearly 600 pas t
sengers, had Asiatie cholera on board. Eight ii
of them from cholera, and on her arrival at S
quarantine four persons were sick of the dis
ease. The infected vessel, with her passen
gers, has been sent to the lower bay.
A dispatch from Greenwood, Mississippi, n
says: "a negro, named Henry Taylor, killed )
another negro on the Tallahatchee river about C
two months ago. At that time an attempt b
was made by colored Masons to lynch him, II
but they were prevented, Mr.. Stancil taking a
Taylor into his house and protecting him. n
Since then both Taylor and his wife have It
One day last week body was d
found in the river, which proved to be that of L
Taylor, and the impression is that colored W
Masons made away with both him and his u
wife, Il
In Chicago a man started to cross Clark AZ
street through gap in the string of cars and R
wagons between truck and express wagon. Al
A car in front of the latter vehicle stopped W
at the corner of Kinzie, street and the ex- T(
pressman was obliged to pull up suddenly
Just as the man was crossing The il-board
Of the wagon was down and it caught the
man on one side Of the head, at the same tn
instant the pole of the truck struck him on vi
The other, and he Eas killed standing upright at
before the eyes of the crowd waiting to GROSS Pr
the street. ia
About fifty prominent steamship owners, I'll
1achtsmen, merchants and ex, marine revenue re
officers met in New York last week to discuss r,
he ACCESSIBILITY of establishing naval re- se
erve. Resolutions were adopted approving m,
he establishment by Congress at the next la,
ession of naval reserve. to consist of officers In,
md men from the mercantile marine, yachts ca
men and watermen generally, and of vessels DE-
o be built with reference to use in time of no
var rs auxiliary to the regular navy, such II
eserve to be established on the great lakes as ms
veil as the seaboard. The Secretary of the ba
Navy is to be consulted by committee of ten vic
$ to the furtheraqee Of the project pa
The strike in the wooden millsir,i land college
which was begun twn.eing had much experience
apsed. ThaS business, hatter myself that all
49, - months ago has col
Drugs, Cheweavers demanded an increase
.ases and were supported by the knights
4 of Labor The mill owners refused to take
any of the strikers who wouid not sign an
agreement to give up all allegiance to the
KNIGHTS and return at the old wages. Nearly
ali The weavers have agreed to the conditions
Il Is very severe defeat for the Knights
Of Labor. who lose nearly seven hundred
members, after supporting that number Tor |
two months, each having drawn from " to
IS week from the Labor treasury.
According to dispatches from Corpus |
Christi, Texas, Juan Garcia Barrera, rich
ranchman, on the 18th of September, while
short distance from his house, situated be-
tween Las Tederalis and La Gozalina, was
surrounded by FIVE desperadoes and robbed
of $500. He was taken across the river into
Mexico and closely guarded. His captors !
compelled him to write to his family, notify,
: inc them that unless they Immediately raised
and paid to an individual named Sl5,000 by
Septemper 18th he wouldbe shot. Barrera's
: son paid the money and the prisoner was re-
leased. He vas kept blindfoded during his
detention.
A passenger train on the Mobile and Ohio
Railroad, while running at speed OF 40 miles
r an hour, was thrown from trestie bridge
two miles south Of jackson, Tennessee, Tues,
: dav morning. The engine alone remained
!, on the track, the coaches being thrown dis.
lance of forty feet, and some Of them turned
. upside down. Strange to say no person, was
killed, and of the ihirty.three injured Ira
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